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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
DEMOCRATS WIN. !
NORFOLK coHrEsTPD.ELECrIoN CASES
DECIDED IN THEIR FAVOR.
ssveral More Cases Of SMALLPOX PER
sonal- Charged with Forgery
Post Office Committee.
tcorrosoooacncs Of n. richmond Dl.pa.oh.l

fCorroapondence OF the Richmond Dispa'ch'I
NORFOLK, February 10, 1887.
In the contested-election case penang
in the Circuit Court Judge Hill rendered
his decision this morning in favoroi tine
Democratic incumbents. The OPINION
stated TINT, while the evidence tended
toshow fraud in the Fourth Ward, IL ara
not inynlidate the election, as no frauds
were proved in the other wards, ana 10
throw out the Fourth Ward altogether
would still leave the Democrats WIN
large majority. The counsel for the
Republicans then stated that their siae
would abandon the case.
Several more cases of smallpox were
discovered among the negroes last eve
ming and sent to the pest-honse. Last
night the City Council approprl lted
81 600 for q general vaccination OF tine
poor of Norfolk.
Lieutenant Commander r. b. Brad
ford, of the torpedo station at Newport,
arrived here last night to look after the
torpedo outfit TO be supplied to the
flagship Trenton.
Commander G. S. Cotton, ordnance
officer of the yard, has gone to Wash
ington.
Iieutenant-C Commander f. $. Hous-
ton, equipment officer of the yard, re-
turned to-day from two-months trip
to Europe, bringing his family from
Switzerland.
The delegation OF councilmen to &C
company Mayor Barton Myers and
Colonel William Lamb to Washington
tonight to urge the $3.50, 900 for the
new post-office here consists OF Messrs.
Martin. Newton, and Power, of the
Common Council, and Messrs. Taylor,
Guy, and Ludlow, of the Select Coun-
ell.
Colonel II. A. Montgomery, presi-
dent of the Cotton-Compress Assocla-
tion. and Colonel J. Catlett Gibson,
United States district attorney, are IN
this city.
Charles Jones, colored, waslodged in
iail last night for forging the name OF
Lieutenant l.. w. 7. Waller, United
States marine corps, for considerable
sum of money.
The barn of Nh. J. /. Beale, in Isle
of Wight county. four miles from Iuni,
was burned few nights ago and five
hundred bags of peanuts and seven
hundred shocks were destroyed. There
was no insurance.
The colored girl Eliza Gatewood, who
dropped dead on Cumberland street
Yesterday, is claimed by her colored
friends to have been conjured by the
man she refused to marry, and they are
urging the police authorities to arrest
the man. ".
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
nLACKSPURG COLLEGE.
Spring Term of shis Agricultural
and Mechanical institution.

correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
BLAcKsBURG, February 8, 1887.
The spring term of the Virginia Ag-
riculturai and Mechanical College com
menced on Monday, January 2ith,
with l07 matriculstes.
The students are all in uniform, and
present fine appearance. There has
been 10 disorder during the session,
and the discipline of the college will
compare favorably with any in the
country.
The senior class Is now occupied two
DAYS in the week in land-srTveying, and
also has eight hours per week IN the
chemical laboratory. There will be
three graduates in agriculture from tins
class.
The students in the business course
bookkeeping, stenOgraphy, telegra-
ply, and type-writing), in addition to
their other studies, have eleven hours
per week for the special course. The
number of students taking this course
is forty-eight.
Sixteen hours per week are spent in
the laboratory by the first and second
classes in analytical chemistry.
The mechanical course is as complete
as the machinery at hand will permit.
There are forty-fve students taking
this course, each having four hours III
the shop and four in the drawing acade-
my per week. :,
The class during last term was taught
to make the different kinds of joints
frames and gates, and are now occu
pied in making furniture, a farm
wagon, and house-framing.
The college is generally in d thrifty
| condition.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11

VIII some one please tell me where
Cleanliness is next to godliness "
comes from.
John Wesley: Sermon 90, On Dress.
Certainly this is a duty, not sin.
Cleanliness is indeed next to go1i-
ness. "-,SOuthern ChWchn0n.
. The New York Journal of Commerce
says what the word "indeed" indi-
cates) that the great preacher only
quoted a proverb that was common
long before his day. But before the
Journal of Commerce said that, the
Rev. Dr. Bethlehem, then residing in
this city, and whom that paper styles
"the celebrated Hebrew rabbi DIR. Bet
telheim," had in the columns of the
Dispatch traced the expression back
more than two thousand years to Be
raitha, where it appears as the last
Mishna Of Sofa, chapter X. 1t fire.
quently occurs in the writings of the
early Hebrew fathers. In one it reads:
"Phinchas ben Ydir says; The doc
trines of religion are resolved into Cor
are next to- carefulness; carefulness
into nervousness; nervousness into
guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abste-
miousness; abstemiousness into cleanli-
ness; cleanliness into goodness equal
TO hohness), &C., &C." A literal trans
lation would be Cleanliness next to
(or akin toy godliness.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
BOND VERSUS HUGHES.
Tho Recent Letter OF the Latter
Commented on by the Former.

The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says:
A SIN reporter met Judge Bond in
the street yesterday morning and asked
him if he had received Judge Hughess
letter respecting the hearing OF the
Virginia coupon cases at Baltimore.
Judge Bond said he had just received
from Attorney-General Ayers a letter
covering copy of Judge Hughes let
ter to him declining to sit in Baltimore
at the hearing of certain Virginia cases
there, and also reasons why the Judge
opposed the resembling of the order re-
During the plaintiffs in all actions OF
trespass to file the rendered coupons IN
such actions, which, of his own motion,
he had made ut Richmond recently.
Reporter: "What will be the conse-
quence of Judge Hughes's refusal to
sit at the hearing?"
Judge Bond "The cases were fixed
for hearing here by Judge Hughes and
myself at Alexandria to accommodate
counsel, and particularly Attorney
General Ayers and Hon. j. Randolph
Tucker, whose duties in Congress
would not permit him to be long alb
sent or far away. If counsel refuse to
come. the cases will be heard in Vir-
ginia at the convenience OF counsel and
the court"
Reporter: "What do you intend to
do about the resembling of the order
requiring the filing of coupons in the
trespass cases
Judge Bond: 81 do not intend to
write any opinion or TO form any judS.
ment on the subject until | have heard
argument Of counsel, and then | shall
deliver what ! have to say from the
bench in the usual way, and you news
paper-men shall not have it, with my
permission, till my brother Judge has
seen it, Publicity is very good thing
imagine, in its way, but / think i
ougbt to come after trial, and not be
fore"
Reporter When will anything be
done further in these cases :"
Judge Bond "When the lawyer
ask me to hear them anywhere III the
circuit, here or elsewhere.
Reporter "Wil you reply to the
letters 2"
Judge Bond: 81 think it is hardl.
necessary. | am not in the habit o
receiving communications from distric
Judges through the medium of thu
counsel for the defendant"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11

his election. He was an eccentric. He
il was who once told his congregation in
West Virginia, then Virginia, not to
turn around TO see who was coming
into church, as he would call out
the names as they entered. And he
did so, very much to the astonishmcnt
Of the newcomers, until one appearei
with whom he was unacquainted,
whereupon he said; at il a little old
man with q white coat and black hat;
look for yourselves"
Mr.. DEAN had become lawyer be-
fore we met him mot for the first time)
in st. Louis at the National Democratic
Convention of 1876. He attracted a
GOOD deal Of attention in st. Lomis,
and said that he was as lawyer "get-
ting even" with the scoundrels who had
burned his houses and destroyed his
property because he was a southern
sympathizer. Strange TO say, 1t was III
the northern Methodist Episcopal
Church that he was preacher
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
Our Grand Juries Not wiped Gus.

Judge Bond will admit that the State
of Virginia cannot be sued; but he will
aid in hunting down her officers who
obey her laws, and by this means it is
hoped and expected to bring her to her
knees before Mr. Cooper and Mr.. Roy
all. The distinction between the agent
and the State, the officer and the Com
monwealth which he serves, is one
which expresses no difference, for if
Bond. Royal & Co. so on Virginia will
be practically in the hands of receiver.
But. bad as our affairs were, the attempt
to pocket the sovereignty of the State,
As if it were no better than Waterbury
watch, was not made in all its full pro-
portions of insolence until Mr.. Royal
undertook to bully the grand jury.
That gentleman must be man of mucn
impetuosity of temper, and OF an en-
ergy that can degenerate into mere
haste. for otherwise he would not have
struck so unwise and offensive blow
as that Of which We complain. He
ought to have known that the State
could not and would not submit to the
degradation of her grand jurles. To
admit that these can be instructed,
controlled, and dominated by an indi-
yidual member of society would be
ruinous. and to ruin would be added
degradation when an alleged Offend
er could 80 bully and control the
bodies Of which We speak. Our grand
iuries are summoned by the courts, they
are responsible TO the courts, and pre-
pare certain necessary and important
work for them, 50 that for Mr.. Royal
or Mr.. Anybodyelse to come between
grand Jury and the court would be, as
we have said, ruinous to the dignity and
interests of the State. al of these
things Mr.. Royal seems to have lost
sight of or to have treated with con-
TEMPT but, fortunately, Judge Atkins
seems to be entirely worthy TO vindi-
cate the rights OF the Virginia people in
the strange issue which has arisen be-
tween them and the attorney of the
foreign bondholders.
We cannot conceive the state of law
which would render Mr.. Royals posi-
ton tenable. and we should not like TO
live in a community where any indi-
vidual could dominate grand jury.
That he intimidated this body in Rich
mond is shown by the recordsof Judge
Atkins's court, and that the Judge
knows how to maintain his dignity and
the public rights is shown by his prompt
action in the premises He has taught
the jury lesson--that of reliance on
the law and obedience thereunto, and
he has shown the attorney for the bond
holders that he he cannot ride rough
shod over the grand juries OF the State.
Norfolk Landmark.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11

KEoKUK, Iowa, February IA spe-
cial dispatch announces the death of
Henry Clay Dean, Democratic pohti-
cal orator extensively known through
out the country. His demise occurred
Sunday at his home in Putnam county,
Mo. Mr.. Dean was at one time Chap
lain OF the United States Senate, and
was sixty-fiye years old Henry Clay
Dean was character. He was a
preacher and politician, and there was
not q section Of country in Missouri,
Iowa, and Kansas that has not heard
his exhortations and stump-speeches.
He was Democrat OF the ultra-Bour-
bon type. Chicago Journal
HENRY CLAY DEAN was q remarkable
man. He was the author OF book en-
titled, "Crimes Of the Civil War" He
wss . yiginian by birth, and never
forgot the home OF bis ancestors. To
his credit be il said tina. when he was q
candidate Tor Chaplain OF the United
States Senate be remained 300 miles
distant from Washington city until after
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
The Tobacco Question.
D.,-,1rrp Fehr,arv e 1897


To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Mr.. II. T. Hubard's article in your
issue Of last Sunday calls for a short re-
ioinder from me. Mr.. Hubbard quotes
me as saying that the Virginia farmer
suffers from lack of domestic COMPETE
ton for his tobacco, and calls it an adj
mission on my part. So far from being
an admission l regard it as the strongest
point made 10y me. In the prosperous
times to which Mr.. Hubbard refers the
culture of bright tobacco was in its
infancy and Burley tobacco was UNI
known. These two formidable competl-
tors were not in the field. Nowthe yield
of either of these types far surpasses IN
amount Virginia shipping tobacco, and
they together have about monopollzed
the domestic trade. A few years ago
Burley filters were selling at from Sl5
to S25, while Virginia tobacco could
have been bought for less than half
that price. Still the domestic trade
took the Burley in preference. Now
the Burley is so abundant that it sells
very low, making a still worse show for
the Virginia farmer In fact, the Bur
lev is now very largely used as wrap
per, thus taking the place OF the bright
Virginia wrapper while plug, made OF
Burley filters, is rapidly encroaching
upon the trade in the bright work OF
Virginia and North Carolina. In addi-
ton to all this, the farmer Of Kentucky
and Ohio, on his rich lands, makes
much larger yield per acre than in Vir-
ginia, and even at the same price may
make money while the Virginia farmer
is losing. When we come to cigarette
ard smoking tobacco, the bright to-
baccos have almost clear field.
lam afraid Mr.. HUBBARD would have
hard work convincing the large manu-
facturers of Durham, Baltimore, and
Detroit OF the superiority of Bucking
ham Tugs.
Manufacturers of both plug and
smoking-tobaeco cater TO the popular
taste. They try to furnish what the
buyer wants. They have no call fol
| the strong, smoked tobacco of South.
side Virginia. There are large manufac
tuners, notably in Petersburg, who worl
| dark Virginia tobacco, but they max,
| no effort to sell it in this country
| Doubtless they would if they could
They send their whole product TO Aus
tralia, India, and other British colo
MES. / think l have made it plain tina
the Virginia farmer is suffering from
want OF domestic demand for his to
bacco. Both bright and Burnley to
bacco have become 80 abundant an,
cheap that the hope Of the domesti
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11

The lot of grand juror in Rich
mond at the present time is not a par
ticularly pleasant one. If he finds an
indictment against certain class of
violators of the State law he is threat
ened with suits for damages, and is la
bic to be carried to Baltimore for trial
in the United States Circuit Court; and
if he refuses to find indictments when
he has positive evidence before him, he
is told that he will be imprisoned by
the State court for contempt. This
condition of affairs surely ought not TO
continue long.-NoroH Ledger.
The amount of trouble, vexation, aud
general worry given the State Of Vir-
ginia by bonds is incalculable. We
have had coupon bonds, peeler bonds,
and Riddleberger bonds to plague us,
but of all the bonds that ever vexed
this poor old Commonwealth Hugh Il.
Bond has proved the most unmitigated
curse. -,ScOHsviite Courier.
The opinion of Judge Atkins, of the
Hastings Court of Richmond, in the
case of the boycott of Baughman
Brothers is very able, proper, and
timely exposition of the ways and legit-
innate results of the boycott system
DcaUiUc Register.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
Tho Debt Question.

RuTHEE GLEN, Va, Feb. 7, 1877.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch;
In "a Card from Mr.. Royal" in
your paper of the 9TH instant Mr.. Roy
all gives you the Thoughts OF quiet
citizen"
We of the rural districts think "the
true patriots and friends of Virginia
are those who spent their substance
and spilled their blood before the com
mon enemy during the late war, and
accepted defeat at arms, the loss OF
their slaves, and the depreciation OF
their property, when they surrendered
at Appomattox Courthouse.
The "true patriots" did not, when
they accepted the situation when the
southern armies surrendered, agree to
uphold an inflated bonded debt which
was originally baseduponproperty given
ND Slaves and one third OF the terri
tory of the State). The true patriot
and friend of Virginia did not uphold
the first Legislature under the Under
wood Constitution in the passage OF the
funding bill, which made all the funded
debt of the State, with the accrued in
terest on the same, convertible into
tax-receivable coupon bonds. The true
patriot did not uphold the Readiuster
Legislature in the passage OF the Kid
dleberger bill, but as the two prevail
ing parties in the. State accepted the
Riddleberger bill as a final settlement,
the true patriots will abide that settle
ment provided the bondholders quickly
accede to the same, for the true
patriots and quiet citizens have
come to the conclusion that the
next war-cry in Virginia politics will be
reputation. And while Malone has
done the State of Virginia great harm
in moral and political point OF view,
we "quiet citizens" believe that Mr..
Royall has done the State more harm
financially under bogus legality than
Malone has done morally and pollti-
cally, because the people and quiet
citizens are somewhat recovering from
the rude shocks of the Malone rule,
but when will they recover from the
deadly effects OF reputation to which
Mr.. Royall seems determined to drive
them? What will be the effects OF
reputation upon all the institutions
that our quiet citizens hold most dear?
The schools hid colleges, the asylums,
law and order, private contrncts, the
status of sociability between man and
man, all to be rudely broken up by the
selfishness of the bondholders and their
confeIreeS.
The bondholdcr could accept ten
cents on the dollar OF his bonds and
then have more than other citizens OF
Virginia in comparison to the deprecia-
ton in value OF other species of pro
perry. And, again, other species OF
property have been taxed to death by
bondholders and revenue collectors, foI
even the revenue-tax on tobacco falls
fffallv on the landowner, because the
selling price of tobacco has been re-
duced to such low figures that it does
not pay the labor for cultivation. As s
quiet citizen / think if the vote was tC
be taken this year in the State great
majority would go for repudiation, anC
l hear wherever l have an opportunity
of inquiry that the legislator who doe
not advocate reputation will not bC
voted for, and it will I've well for Mr.
ROYAL and the bondholders to quickly
accept the Riddleberger settlement
or they will fare worse.
RUTHEB GLEN.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
working the Roads.

To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Like Homer, you have been caught
nodding.
The general road law approved March
20. 1876 (section 2l), requires all male
persons from the age of sixteen to sixty,
inclusive, to work the roads; and TINS
law is still in force in forty-six counties
at least, if they have no special law
proyiding otherwise, or their Boards OF
Supervisors have not adopted the act
approved March s, l38l.
The latter act leaves the age at from
sixteen TO sixty in the forty-six counties
mentioned in its twenty-seyenth sec
ton. and also in such other counties as
have special laws to the same effect,
until with few exceptions mentioned
in the twenty-eighth section) their
boards Of Supervisors shall see fit to
adopt the act, and then the age Will DO
from eighteen to sixty. See Acts
1889 "a, chapter 352, sections IL, 70,
81. %; Acts 1885, chapter %
Acts 1884 extra session., chapter ~.
In certain counties, by special acts,
if the supervisors have not adopted the
act of March s, 1884, the age is from
twenty-one to sixty. See Acts l9Sl-,82,
page POT, section q; Acts 1881,
page sos, chapters 401, 352, section y.
In Henrico "all persons subject to
road duty under the general road law
(section 81, Acts 1S74-'75, page 1871
are required to work on the roads, and
such persons include all males from
sixteen to sixty. See Acts 1883 "a,
page 24S, section 4; page AGA, section
2s.
In Amherst the age is from seven
teen 70 sixty. See Acts lSS3-'o4, page
395, section 81; Acts 1894 extra ses-
sion), chapter 70.
In Elizabeth City county all male
persons over twenty-One years OF age,
no matter how old they may be. except
ministers, have to work the roads. See
Acts 1ss3-'84, pages 630, 464, sectlon2S.
In Nansemond the age is from sixteen
to sixty, inclusive, because the super.
visors have never adopted the act OF
March g, 1884, and there is no special
law prescribing q different age.
And SO forth. NANsEMoND.
February 8, 1897.
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We have all along expressed the hope
that public sentiment could be so IN
fluenced in Virginia that there might
be such change among our citizens IN
the matter of the State debt shat some
settlement might be agreed upon by
the assembling of tho next Legislature,
which would be satisfactory to the Gre
ditors of Virginia, but the position
taken by Judge Bond, as shown in the
above editorial, is a subject quite
foreign to the debt settlement.
The question now is, has the State any
sovereign rights that a United States
court is bound to respect. II Judge
Bond Furnishes q Virginia grand jury
for finding an indictmentin accordance
with the laws Of the State, our courts
are at the mercy of any Federal Judge
who may usurp extraordinary powers
upon the most fimsy pretext. We
agree with our State contemporaries IN
urging our State officials to resist to the
extreme any arbitrary exercise OF power
that Judge Bond may choose TO eXer-
else in thiscoupOn warfare. We believe
in clinging like grim death to what
there may be left of the reserved rights
ofsovereign States. For we still believe
that the salvation of the Union lies in
not allowing the United States, the
Congress, thescourts, and the President
TO interfere with the domestic affairs OF
any State except so far as the Constitu-
ton of the republic provides. Ports
month Times. ,
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LoUDOUN COUNTY.
vrorse.Thievcs- saieide-Personais

&C.. dr.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
LEEsBURe, February Q, 1887.
No less than five horses have been
stolen in this county within the past
month. There seems to be an organ
lied band Of thieves at work, and. if
cnught the full penalty Of the law will
be inflicted.
The body of Mr.. John f. Broadus
was found in Cogle swamp, near Unit
son. with his throat cut and a bloody
razor graspcd in his hand. He had
been suffering for some time from men
tai depression. The coroner's jury
rendered a verdict in accordance with
these facts.
Farmers and others in the neighbor-
hood of Aldee are making loud COM
plants of the frequent visits of thieves
to their corn-cribs, poultry-houses, and
dairies.
DIR. A. s. Tebbs. surgeon inthe United
States marine corps, is on visit to his
home, near Leesburg. CATocrIN.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-11
DEATHS.

CLARK.--Died, February 10Th, at $50 O'Clock
A. ". at his residence, No. 900 north -
James street, X. NJ. CLARK. Sr., In the seven-
tieih year Of his sgo. He leaves vito and
Ave children to mourn thor loss.
Funeral will take place SATURDAY ~ ii
o'clock A. NJ. from the First Baptist church
Friends OF the family arc respocau1yinvstcd.
sTRANGF.-Died, At the r,siienco ~ Mr.
John W. Chewing, AlbemarlScounty, Va, on
the morning of December q. 1895, AGNES
GAINS, consort Of tho lato Colonel John y.
Strange, C.S A.
Funeral services were held from tho Presby-
terian church, Charlottesville. Va, on the 3lss
Of December where her remains woro laid to
rest IN the cemetery by those OF her devoted
husband.
WOOD.--Died, February 10, 1881, At ! A. ",
MARY L.. infant daughter OF l. L. and +. q.
Wood: aged eighteen months. .
Funeral ut O'Clock THIS friday AhNkk-
NOON from the residence, @3 north Firm
street